A brief summary of the U.S. markets on 4.12.12 - nothing new to the reef

Tuesday's were non-business day no excessive activity of market participants, as the turmoil of (not) dealing with matters of fiscal cliff gives investors reason to greater investment exposure. It also markets lacked fundamental impetus for the creation of courses makrosféry and therefore it is no wonder that the whole session indices fluctuated in a relatively narrow band and ended up in the inner minuses.

In the Bloomberg TV interview appeared at President Obama, but his comments were in fact in line with previous submissions on "fiscal cliff."

Sectional view suggests that successful industry and health care, and on the other hand, did not result in good consumer goods and telecoms. Technology was rather below the market average and Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) fell by -0.2%. Shares of Apple have an impact on the sector that still fell in after hours at $ 570.89 course (generally around -2.6%). However, within the sector held in the black PHLX Semiconductor Index to gain 0.7% (+2% Intel).Heavily reinforced shares Netflix (NFLX) after several years of cooperation agreement with Disney to premium pay TV. DJ Transportation Average gained 0.3% and selected Chinese shares were lower after the announcement of the SEC sanctions against Chinese subsidiaries to 4 major accounting firms, which raised questions about the quality of financial statements of listed Chinese stocks in the U.S..

On commodity markets, crude oil ended with a loss of 0.7% to $ 88.47 and gold was by 1.5% lower at the end of the $ 1,695.70. Current status of commodities shows that oil is on course $ 88.97 per barrel and the price of gold is $ 1,707.80 per troy ounce. On the Forex Cross Rates EUR / USD at 1.3119 limit.

Wednesday's program macro data already gaining momentum and will include MBA Mortgage Index (index mortgages), ADP Employment Change (number of new jobs in the private sector) with expectations of 125 thousand., Productivity per 3.Q. with the assumption of +2.7%, the cost per unit of labor 3.Q. with the number of -0.8%, as well as corporate orders for October with Cifra -0.1%, ISM services in November with expectations for 53.7 points and finally oil.

Asian markets showed a very positive performance and the Nikkei Average ended +0.39% HangSeng +2.16% and Shanghai Composite +2.87%. China's service sector PMI number indicator showed 52.1 points (which is a decrease compared to October levels of 53.5 points), but remained in the zone of expansion.